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I'm not part of this subculture, but I honesty enjoy this type of idonsyncratic presentation which always was, and hopefully always will be part of hacker cultu
by disruptiveink 3y ago
I'm not part of this subculture, but I honesty enjoy this type of idonsyncratic presentation which always was, and hopefully always will be part of hacker culture.
The content is not only relevant and hilarious, but I'd much rather personal blogs like this keep being updated instead of seeing the the sterile Medium or LinkedIn Pulse versions, usually written to impress future employers.
Zany visuals, doing things with your friends just because you can and writing up detailed accounts of it to share with everyone is the quintessential hacker culture. If Hackers' Cyberdelia was set in the 2020s, no doubt Mara would fit in.
- xena 3y agoAuthor here. Thank you for liking this. One of the most amusing things is that doing this zany visuals/detailed writeups/unabashed character in my writing actually makes me more impressive to future employers than any sterile LinkedIn posts ever will. I estimate that at this point if I wanted to get hired I could literally post a banger like this, add a banner to it halfway in that says "by the way, I'm looking for gainful employment, if you want someone doing DevRel that writes like this and gives talks like [link], please get in contact" and I could probably get a job in a week or two. I want to keep hacker culture alive by not accepting the gentrification of it. Hacker culture is queer, neurodiverse, furry, weaboo, and more. As a philosopher of the arts, that is the kind of culture I want to create more of. Not platitudes on LinkedIn. I want to create the kind of culture that celebrates art for the sake of art. I may be "cringe", but I am free.
- KaiserPro 3y agoI am totally going to start putting cartoon section summaries in my technical docs.
- sneak 3y ago[flagged]
- xena 3y agoI’m sorry to hear that you felt offended by the cartoon shark in the article about programming. I understand that you may have different preferences and expectations for the content you consume. However, I hope you can also respect my creative choices and freedom of expression. I am not obligated to cater to your personal tastes or opinions, especially when I am providing my content to the world for free. I appreciate your feedback, but I also ask you to be more considerate and respectful of other readers who may enjoy my work. Thank you. I would ask you to perform self-reflection to ascertain as to why the cartoon shark discomforts you. You may want to sit with that discomfort to understand why you feel that way so you can hopefully move past that and towards a more peaceful future. There are a number of logical fallacies being presented in your assertions, however I don't feel like I need to spend the time to pick them apart. Be well,
- chrsig 3y ago> I is not obligated to cater to your personal tastes or opinions, especially when I am providing my content to the world for free. I don't believe OP asserted anything to the contrary, could you highlight where you inferred that? > I appreciate your feedback, but I also ask you to be more considerate and respectful of other readers who may enjoy my work. It would be helpful if you would be willing to expand on how you found the OPs statements disrespectful or inconsiderate.
- soft_dev_person 3y agosneak wanted OP to be less openly queer in their personal blog for their own comfort, due to their own inability to imagine that the subculture OP is part of is more than their own narrow definition of it. I guess the disrespect is clearer when one has grown up with its many forms, but assuming your request for more context comes out of a sincere desire to increase your understanding, I hope this helped.
- isoprophlex 3y ago> I may be "cringe", but I am free. Words to live by, words to die for. Please keep posting bangers!